Pogues, The - Turkish Song Of The Damned Lyrics

It's a rare song that you can listen to a thousand times and still not be tired of it...

Banshees in Ireland comb their hair when they appear and whomever they throw the comb at will die.

This song never gets old ...

SYRIA BASHAR ALLAH

Great Folk Rock song 👍

Deep and dark lyrics from The Master songwriter.

This song is killer! I haven't heard this song in many years and returning for St. Patrick's Day was a treat. Brilliant. They really were brilliant.

The greatest band ever. Greatest songwriter. Greatest musicians. Greatest songs. The Pogues. This ain't no mawkish song of the bland.

amusing orientalism

I am Turkish and I don't find this song offensive. :p Actually, I first listened "The Pogues" with "The Old Main Drag", roughly 25 years ago. But that was another story that we may talk, later. :) About this one? Weeell... This is one of the best Turkish songs even without any Turkish musician or a single Turkish lyric in it. But the melody has the deep feeling of a "Döner Kebap" with a pint of "Guiness"... As a Turkish Pirate from a Mediterranean, giving my best "Damnation" to this song and Ye Olde Irish Sailors... \m/

Love it!

So the story behind the song’s name...

The Pogues were playing a concert in Germany, and as was typical for them they had no set playlist, they just played what sounded good to them and took shouted requests from the audience, their own stuff and covers.

One excited German fan really wanted them to play ‘The Turkey Song’, by the group The Damned. His English wasn’t great and he was in a hurry and a little drunk. “Play Turkish song of The Damned!” he yelled.

“What did he say!?!” Shane shrieked. “That’s fucking brilliant!” He wrote it down on a beer coaster and wrote the song around it.

@Mike L buena historia

It is not supposed to be offensive. It is about pagan ghost pirates attacking a ship.

The world would be a better place if people saved being "offended" for things that mattered..... The scourge of war, poverty, exploitation of man by other men.....
Fuck your feelings... Fuck your religion... Fuck your uptight ass..... Listen to the music and connect with other human beings, FFS....

The damned must have been the Ethnic Albanians the Turks genocided .

Someone said "Another bag of bricks" by Flogging Molly sounded similar to this... *they were right*

"Turkish Song of The Damned" parece un relato salido de la epopeya lusa Trágico-Marítima o de Las Encantadas de Melville, o simplemente la chirigota de uno de ellos tomado al azar. Shane lo sugiere en alguna entrevista. En todo caso su verbo es crudo y el ambiente gótico parece sacado de un film de terror. ¡Parodia lograda! Alguna que otra tarde de invierno, leyendo a Lovecraft apreciaba oír este canto turco del condenado, arrebujadito en una manta para darle más morbo al momento. ¡Marcha feliz! «Vengo viejo amigo del Infierno esta noche/ Al otro lado del mar pútrido/ Ni los clavos de la cruz/ Ni la sangre de Cristo/ Pueden ayudarte esta víspera/ Los muertos han venido a reclamarte una deuda […] ».

Up Ireland ...

Good too baits crews the pogues said buger bad boys 0121 and the tukish bad boys tottenham

Class wat else can one say gods seen them in point depo

Fucking best night wit lads from sheriff street never forget love it

Victory to the Turkish Republic.

qu' est ce que j' ai pu écouté cet album !!!!

Poguetry in Turkey

The meter of this track is phenomenal in terms of the sound.  Not to mention, the vocals.  Rebetiko? I think so. X

The entire song is great but the part starting at 2:40 is from another universe.

The lyrics in this song are heavier and more evil than anything Slayer & Co have ever come up with.

Absolutely. Brilliant song. It's like getting to hear a freaky-as-hell folk tale being born. Love The Pogues.

what a great comment. irishman here who grew up listening to metal and the pogues. always got that same feeling from both. powerful feeling

Des paroles hard qui tendent à faire sortir l'individu d'une léthargie assomante...
Un style particulier
The pogues so great and powerful band

this is for Gordon o goole

I must thank Manwithoutabody for bringing me here.

Properly Splendid Stuff! Arr Harr

Come on guys ! Drink with uss

*sips beer*

Slainte

MMMM THIs is really weird but really cool i l o v e it

Absolutely love this band. Great songs, great musicians ... Great lead singer, haha! Started listening to the Pogues again recently cos you hear them a lot on the HBO series, The Wire. Body of An American gets a couple of airings (it's the song played whenever the Baltimore cops hold a wake for a departed comrade). Jimmy McNulty's character is a big fan, and you hear Turkish Song of the Damned once on his car radio.

Andrew Francis

For sure. Always loved The Pogues and loved The Wire that much more because of their inclusion! And yeah, I think old McNulty listens to the Pogues a few times. Is the Turkish Song of the Damned playing in that scene where he's like blind drunk and runs his car into that bridge support bunch of times?
Such a great show.

That plot twist in 2.40 LOVE IT!!

Love the beginning of the song - it grabs you by the throat and won't let you go :)

Woah! I just discovered ''Dirty Old Town'' by Pongues. That was their second song that grabbed my attention as a Turk!

Pongues is a great band! :)

Listen to "the band played waltzing matilda" , a cover by the pogues about gallipoli - pretty fucken good.

Very best song ever written...today. a lot of us dancing this

@Ernest Schroeder I would go so far as to say Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen have a few songs each that can rival this one, but I agree, this is one of the best songs ever written and produced.

Shane is huge Tom Waits fan, Tom is huge Pogues fan (read his poem "Pogues" in inner sleave of "Hell's Dithc" edition from 2004.) and I am huge fan of both (but I admite I am "The Clash fan at first) and I would like to hear Tom's versions
of some Pogues songs; "Rainy night in Soho" would be perfect for Tom.

A pure genius when it comes to writing songs along with chevron. A poet in his own right. Brilliant band of musicians

You related?

poetry is right..... Puts you right in the song..... Classic all the way- loove it!

slainte pogues

heard this (and other pogues songs)while reading wuthering heights... great combination!

but i'm not sure about one thing: the sailor with the captain's corpse id dead or not?

Fkn mc how am 50 50 chance he shows up 4 a gig

Mc gowan freakn predictive text

The song starts: I come, old friend, from Hell tonight, across the rotting sea
Nor the nails of the cross, nor the blood of Christ can bring you hope this eve
The dead have come to claim a debt from thee
They stand outside your door fourscore and three. So he was dead.

love shanes voice killer

Greetings from Turkey :)

Mehmet Ali Ünveren
I visited Turkey in 2007 and met a Turkish man with a flawless Dublin accent.

Yunans coming to party

You are all welcome :) Alexiou

Where Mehmet shall we come ; We will go to Turkey/ Istanbul in spring.

Dude ,Do not forget to take a travel guide from your hotel. Hope you have good fun :)

Go to Beyazit and walk there from there to Eminönü.There are many places to visit on that road.(Grand bazaar, mosques and Museums)
Taksim square(Taksim in the james joyce ırish pub)
Beşiktaş and Ortaköy(Palaces and the sea)... Karaköy and Etiler
You should definitely go to Kadikoy A place where you can find nice pubs
Kadıköy Bull Fenerbahçe Şükrü saraçoğlu and Moda coastal path

Hotel Location Galata-Taksim take around (Ideal for subway, bus and food)

es tan lindo pasar el dia eskuchando esto

The Wire!!!

R.I.P. Phil Chevron.

evet iyi kavradılar

ya iyi de ne beethoven'ı shane macgowan yazdı söyledi bunu...

yeah just grow up, takes a man to take a joke, not a fucktard

bu Beethovenın ki,birde mozartın ki var.daha nice Bestecilerin Türk Marşı adı altında bestesi var.avrupaya müziği veren Türklerdir.
bu arada yarrağım lafı için özür dilerim...

ne diyon yarrağım!Behovenın Turkish March bu,
yorumlara baktım öyle bişeyler diyorlar Türk falan.
and u shut up,who said its bad!
its awesome!

Germiyanids were Oghuz Turks,not kurd or anything else.im Oghuz Turk too :) im Chepni which Family are you belong to?

bune amk.
what is that?are they Turk?where did my father learn to make pie from?

and but sex in prison

Ok. I' m against sports anyway.

the games are held in istanbul in turkey in 2017

Oh dude ! According to the human genome the sick perverted idea of "race/breed" does not existe ! ^^

i think they should play this at the opening ceremnoy of the 2017 world olympics in istanbul turkey

opps iv replyed to u twice an u may already know that Haplogroup R1b is our celtic blood witch isn't the same as are celtic culture. if u didn't il explain more but I think u get it lol science ftw

Haplogroup R1b that is our celtic genetics not that "blood" matter outside of science .but u all hear are entering science an I cant let any of u do that wrongly as its not how we as the human race progresses. sorry if im being a nerd

u want the blood of my people is Haplogroup R1b google it

are genetics are Haplogroup R1b google it while I thank the scythians for our culture our genetics are not from there. im being picky becoz if ur gona use science use all of it. our genetics are complex but worth getting right for the sake of science saying are blood is Turkish is like saying Chinese blood is indian cultures are not genetic not offence

sorry to be picky but its not blodd just culture celtic culture is not genetics we are oisin Haplogroup R1b. google it don't confuse genetics for culture its unhistoric

At first, "Celt" was a term used by Greeks & Romans to describe Europeans who weren't Greek or Roman. And following the Germanic migrations from Scandinavia, Europeans who weren't Germanic either (although, they often confused the two groups). Caesar basically said a Celt is a civilized barbarian, whereas a German is a wild barbarian. That's how they distinguished the two. It had little to do with language or culture. The guy wearing pants was a Celt. And the guy wearing furs was a German.

we love guinness here in Turkey ! love the irish music too , awesome song , cheers !

luv dis

Celtic culture was a cultural and linguistic category not necessarily a biological one. Looking for "Celtic DNA" would be a vain undertaking fraught with dilemmas. The racist thinking of the 19th century persists as an artifact of intellectual inertia into the 21st century. Regretably.

Celtic people can be found everywhere.

εδω ειναι βαλκανια ρεε

shane is a god

I read the words came to him when he was on acid. Great songwriter.

i love shane!

kitapsız!! ceddimizin lanetlediği topraklarda ne karıştırıyosun...? hainliği bırak bre iblis!! FK NOVI PAZAR!!!

this dept can not be paid with all your jack

Wayne Daly Uh debt, no department (dept abbreviated) will help you with his problem

this picture is a cover on their LP

the Gauls were celts. the Celts had a number of subcategories one of which were the the gauls

great photo the band are dressed like james joyce

One of them _is_ James Joyce.

great photo the are dressed like james joyce

great picture everyone is dressed like james joyce

Weird...not soilwork.

There are two feckin' eejits on You Tube.
And at least 213 (as of 05/05/2012) with taste.

Fav Pogues tune. It's all great, but THIS song and THIS album may be all you need to be truly addicted to absolute mayhem!

Once long long ago we were all, all together, not like now with divisions, race, culture. Just when we are figuring it all out, the bastards "in charge" want to take it all for themselves. Well, are we gonna let them? Or are we gonna FIGHT!

This is my favourite song of all times. Just gets me that best feeling ever.

@Turoyan

If you look at old Celtic patterns in clothing and art, you can see some similarities. I'd love to go to Turkey.

This song is amazing. Its like some Irishmen and some Turkish dudes got together and had a drunken party! Efes and Guiness for all!

@liamthebluesguitaris Cool story bro, you should write a book.

@paganpoet3 you're*

get a room gassmask and gasper. bloody ridiculous.

@3choBlaster ....i like the way you express your self with words.....
IT LOOKS LIKE YOUR A TURK OR SOMETHING.....hehehehhe....

I love this song but i cant understand a single word

and as i sit and talk to you i see your face go white, this shadow hanging over me is no trick of the light.

This might be their best song in my opinion. its the perfect mix of Irish and Eastern. The pinnacle of their career.

@paganpoet3 Yeah, right. Change the topic, you stupid seacrawler.

@GasMaskSS .....Ataturk is the one WHO FUCKED ALLAH......

so he saved me from that one......

and actually.....who gives a damm about Turkey.....you people are in midleage......

@paganpoet3 Nice try, Alexander. Go out alone in the streets and yell out "Fuck Atatürk, fuck Allah."

Record it to a video, and I'll give you 150000 dollars.

@GasMaskSS ....actualy i did......last year i was in instabul for a football play.....
P.A.O.K fc Vs fenerbactshe.......

I SAID THAT OVER AND OVER AGAIN.......nothing happend....
i have many kurdish friends in instabul.....armenians too.....EVEN TURKS.....

THEY ALL AGREE.....KEMAL WAS A MASS MURDERER AND A DRUNK......
my house is just 50 meters away from his birth home.....
EVERY MORNING I SAY "FUCK YOU KEMAL".....
nothing happend.....
i guess you smoke and you are dreaming dude....

@paganpoet3 You don't have the balls to say that in Turkey. Turks would go viking on your ass.

@GasMaskSS ...."FUCK ATATURK".......im waiting for the "consequences."......

THE ONLY CONSEQUENCES IS THAT MILLIONS OTHER PEOPLE WILL REPEAT WHITH A SMILE IN THEIR FACES......"FUCK HIM"......

@gasper47 You'll get a boot shoved up your ass if you try to mess with a Turk. Just come down here, give it a try. Say "Fuck Atatürk" and deal with the consequences.

@gasper47 Hahahahahah. The glorious Turks scored over a million Gaymenians, and you think you can get vengeance over that?

Good luck, bro.

Turk & proud.

@gasper47 Good job confusing this song with Turks.

@sxserenade I went to see them in Christmas 2009 and they didn't play it. I was a little gutted, but it was still a fucking great night and I was too pissed to care.

this is third time I've fav'd it but it never works hopefully this time it works >:P curse the favorite button of the damned

This is an amazing song.